A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
— Jean Genet · Time
The World Motivation
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
— Jean Genet · Time
Explore more quotes by Jean Genet on topics like Time, wisdom, and life lessons.
“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
“Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.”
“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
“I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.”
“I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.”
“The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.”
“Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.”
“I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.”
“... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.”
“Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.”
“I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.”
“In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground, olive trees; but three tenses dizzy my consciousness: my present, the time of Jesus, and that of the photographer, all this under the instance of 'reality' — and no longer through the elaborations of the text, whether fictional or poetic, which itself is never credible”